PLPR0069E during execution of iscdeploy -restore after uninstalling WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.1.1

Technote (troubleshooting)

Problem(Abstract)

After uninstalling WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.1.1, and unmounting the WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.1.1 install hfs, the execution of any subsequent iscdeploy -restore command fails with the message PLPR0069E for a missing plugin.xml.

Symptom

After uninstalling WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.1.1 and unmounting the WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.1.1 install hfs, the execution of any subsequent iscdeploy -restore command fails with the message PLPR0069E for a missing plugin.xml as shown in this stack trace.

PluginException : PLPR0069E: IOException while parsing plugin.xml in /WebSphere/ND/DeploymentManager/systemApps/isclite.ear/isclite.war/ WEB-INF/com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/plugin.xml wrappedException = java.io.FileNotFoundException: /WebSphere/ND/DeploymentManager/systemApps/isclite.ear/isclite.war/ WEB-INF/com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/plugin.xml (EDC5129I No such file or directory.) at com.ibm.ws.console.plugin.PluginSaxParser.parse(PluginSaxParser.java:91) at com.ibm.ws.console.plugin.PluginProcessor.detectLoadedPlugins(PluginProc essor.java:225) at com.ibm.ws.console.plugin.PluginProcessor.main(PluginProcessor.java:1612 ) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:48) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:600) at com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:267)

Resolving the problem

A script is provided in this technote. Run the script on every node in the cell, and then the iscdeploy -restore command will run successfully.

Example:

The script is placed in the tmp directory. The cell has two nodes and these are DeploymentManager and AppServer. The script runs on every node in the cell. The node is used as the first parameter. The output is placed in a file in the the tmp directory.